The Kikosa Collection is a continuously growing collection of video-recorded interactions collected by and housed at the University of Oulu's Department of Languages and Literature. The collection can be used for studies on language and interaction. The material includes everyday face-to-face interactions and group interviews involving multicultural families and friend groups, Finnish as a second language class discussions, and meetings from local societies. The vast majority of the material is in Finnish or English, and of the approximately 130 hours currently collected, approximately half has been transcribed to date (27.09.2024). Kikosa's main subcollections are: - Everyday conversations among multicultural families and friends living in Finland (53 h) - Interviews with people who moved to Finland and their spouses (55 h) - 'Shopping' exercises of Finnish as a second language lessons (4 h) - 'Shopping' exercises from Estonian lessons etc. (3 h) - Board meetings of the local community association (7 h) - Board meetings of student organizations (5 h) - Video games (10 h) The Kikosa collection also includes written material, such as conversations between AI and humans. The material of the Kikosa collection has been collected by, e.g., Linguistic and bodily involvement in multicultural interactions (LinBo) project (2019-25) funded by the Academy of Finland and the Eudaimonia Institute of the University of Oulu.

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